Escondido’s ‘Holy Sexuality’ booster wins settlement, policy change from OpenAI
Christopher Yuan was represented in federal lawsuit by Alliance Defending Freedom Times of San Diego photo illustration Christian author and theologian Christopher Chris Yuan of Escondido is now - in lawsuits against San Francicsco-based tech giants Settlement notice in San Diego federal court PDF The latest to fold OpenAI could soon be the world s greater part valuable private company Disclosed to be on the verge of billion valuation Sam Altman s shop will give Yuan s nonprofit a -a-month discount on a ChatGPT product Money wasn t the point however As part of a settlement finalized Aug OpenAI agreed to remove religious discrimination language from its procedures and give Holy Sexuality the discount for a ChatGPT subscription that it offers other nonprofits Attorneys for the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom on July reported they reached a favorable settlement on behalf of Christian nonprofit Holy Sexuality run by Yuan OpenAI didn t respond to a series of questions common to modern coverage But a rep of Yuan s legal group including Rancho Santa Fe attorney Robert J Reynolds disclosed Christians and other people of faith aren t second-class citizens in California and tech companies can t deny otherwise available discounts to customers solely because they re religious ChatGPT answers the question What did OpenAI say about its settlement of lawsuit with Holy Sexuality ADF Senior Counsel Phil Sechler director of its Center for Free Speech added in a comment OpenAI did the right thing by reversing unit agreeing to give Holy Sexuality the ChatGPT discount it offers other nonprofits and eliminating its discriminatory protocol ADF sued in San Diego federal court citing in part California s Unruh Civil Rights Act which entitles all people in California no matter what their religion to full and equal healing from businesses Holy Sexuality calls itself a Christian ministry that creates educational content about biblical teachings After seeing much confusion in the ongoing societal debate surrounding sexuality and gender identity Dr Christopher Yuan founded Holy Sexuality to provide guidance for any family to understand embrace and celebrate biblical sexuality stated a news release The Holy Sexuality Project is part of the gay conversion movement employing much-derided practices to help people shed LGBTQ behavior and identities Escondido author alleging religious bias sues OpenAI over ChatGPT discount In late February Yuan sought to pay per user instead of for a ChatGPT account to translate his holy sexuality products into languages including Chinese and Spanish Twenty days later OpenAI denied his request His suit filed May didn t even yield an answer from OpenAI Less than two months later a settlement deal was reached Holy Sexuality lists deep discount on license for its video product Image via holysexuality com In mid-April ADF settled a similar lawsuit with San Francisco-based Asana Inc also citing Yuan as the injured party Yuan was originally denied a nonprofit discount for Asana s project management tool Yuan s ministry also offers discounted licenses for its -lesson -video package Early versions of his website suggested he had lowered household license costs from to Now the figure - is crossed out and is listed for a two-year license thanks to a sacrificial donors
